Nick

I got this email this morning. I hate spammers, I think maybe they got my email address from Scoobynet?

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From: enquiries@powerseeker.co.uk
Subject: Subaru Enthusiast

Powerseekers October competition is simple to win! Just visit

EvilBevel

Yup, got the same this morning ...

Robertio

iTrader: (1)

I got 1 too. Same subject of Subaru Enthusiast so we have obviously visited the same website if they have not got them from Scoobynet.

Gary Foster

I got one too, but I have visited their site in the passed, I may we'll have filled something in by mistake.

Gary

Blow Dog

A quick and simple way of fighting spammers.

Send (from hotmail preferably) back to the firm a few emails with some very large files atatched.

Does the trick in clogging up their email system if a few people do it.
Cem

I hate them

EvilBevel

I never visited their site.

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

Me too. Never heard of them before.

Justin

Nick

Guys

I think we can figure that they've pinched the emails from this site - *******s!

I've got Suftime, so I can send them a few nice files.

It's time to get my own back on spammers!

Nick

Anyone got a copy of the bible?

EvilBevel

Problem with sending large files is that you use up even more internet bandwith, ennoying people who don't have anything to do with this...

They do however say they have a bbs section: one might want to air ones discontent over there ?

[crap spelling causing even more bandwith ...]

[This message has been edited by EvilBevel (edited 05 October 2000).]

Nick

Anyone know how I can complain to their ISP?

Can Scoobynet complain if they've stolen data?

Josh L

Me too!

Never heard of them!

Barstewards!

steve McCulloch

Erm can I just confirm something - if I've entered their siter and asked for a postcard - what does this mean for me - what is the problem with the site? - should I be concerned?

Martin Cook

I got it too.
Cant get on their web site though!!

Martin

Rogerscoo

Me too... but I have never heard of them before....or visited their website to my knowledge.. so how do they manage to get e-mail addresses?

subedude

I got one too, and I only signed up about a week ago,

RichB

might have been that BBC comp where we wanted to go rallying or driving in Imprezas at Silvertsone or wherever it was....

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

I have received it at

1) My office email

2) My SIDC webmail

3) My home/own domain email



I have once visited their site.

WTF are they getting these email addressed from?

StevieG

yeah, got one this morning. How can we prevent this ??

MarkCSC

I think they did the same thing with the RS board I've now got 2 e-mail one on Ford and the other on Subaru.

GITS!

Bajie

Is that what it was about?
I was getting directed to so many **** sites like this I didn't open the mail.
Never do if I don't know the sender.
Last thing I want is to be looking for a rally car and ending up with some lusty twenty year old sex vixen in leather bondage wear telling me I'm her ultimate sex god.
Like I didn't know already!

johnfelstead

me too

sickboy

Me too.

Not amused.

I think a couple of dozen 10Mb photos should do the job.

Something happened a while back when a distribution list was nicked from a Scoob page.

Chris L

Yes got it as well. Unless they went through every persons profile - how did they get the email addresses?

I've never visited their site that's for sure and I won't be in the future either.

Chris

Tim Bomford

And me

ex-webby

Hi All

I received an email from a friend to say that they thought this was going on (thank you).

I am a little upset and emailed them this morning (long before this thread started) to ask them why they hadn't asked before taking email addresses for the purposes of spam.

They have replied and I am about to read their explanations, but thought I would post to let you know I am looking into it.

May I personally apologise to anybody who has received these emails.

I CATEGORICALLY will NEVER EVER sell email addresses, so I want it to be VERY clear that this has not happened.

The email addresses have been taken by a computer operator they say they employed to strip all the email addresses out.

I will let you know what they say and will point them to this thread so they can answer our questions.

Kind regards

Webmaster

Stuart H

Not impressed at all!!!

[This message has been edited by Stuart H (edited 05 October 2000).]

Bajie

You know, it didn't even cross my mind my email address might have been sold by Webster.
Glad you're looking into it.

Nick

>Webmaster
Thanks for the update. I would be interested to know how they did this. Maybe we will have to hide our email addresses in future?

>Others who don't understand what's happened
These people have hacked into as many BBS sites as they can & stolen email addresses.

Mojo

Me too!
Never heard of them.
Spamming really p155e5 me off!

Mojo

[This message has been edited by Mojo (edited 05 October 2000).]